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sclerotized, funnel-shaped, upper edge forming a sinuate liplike fold. 

 Segment 8+9 moderately sclerotized. 0\dpositor rather short. 

 Signum absent. 



Material examined: Luzon, Baguio, Mountain Province, 9.X.1945, 



1 cf, holotype, genit. slide 5111 (J.B. Franclemont) (GUI). Baguio, 

 Benguet Subprov., 5000 ft., 19.IV and 29.iy.1912 (A.E. Wileman), 



2 &, paratypes, genit. slide 5586; 20.IV.1912, 1 cf , genit. slide 5576 

 (entirely whitish, glossy, devoid of any markings) ; same locality and 

 date, 1 9, allotype, genit. slide 5649; 1 9, paratype, genit. slide 5652; 

 same locality, 29.IV. 19 12, 1 9, paratype, genit. slide 5650. Same 

 locality 19-20. IV.1912, 3 cf , paratypes, genit. slides 5576, 5586, and 

 5651. Same locality, 27. IV.1912, 1 9, paratype, genit. slide 5660 

 (BM). 



Chrysononia Meyrick, 1914 



Key to the Philippine Species of Chrysononia 



1. Markings formed by fuscous dusting, rather extended 2 



Markings very pale, purplish, limited or absent 4 



2. A distinct basal patch to 1/4, limited to lower 2/3 or base of wing. 



C. poecilosema, new species 

 Basal patch ill defined 3 



3. Fore wing with fuscous dusting only in center of base of wing; no spots on 



costa C. fragmentaria, new species 



Fore wing with fuscous dusting spread all over; usually a triangular spot before 

 2/3 of costa C. eumorpha, new species 



4. Markings absent, entire wing more or less sufi'used with brownish. 



C. aporopis, new combination 

 Markings present, however few, forewing not thus suffused 5 



5. Hindwing pale grey C. hypocapna, new species 



Ilindwing yellowish or whitish 6 



6. Yellowish, a fine purplish semicircular line from 3/5 of costa to above tornus, 



thence to costa before apex, often very pale, in females often absent. 



C. hesitans, new species 

 Whitish, a small dark fuscous dot at 5/6 C. inermis, new species 



Chrysonoma aporopis (Meyrick, 1928), new combination 



Figures 264, 649 



Cryptolechia aporopis Meyrick, 1928, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 477 

 (9, Baguio). — Gaede, 1939, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 92, 

 p. 384. — Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 

 1, p. 51. 



Distribution: Philippine Is. 



One male, neallotype, hereby designated, 19 mm, rather worn. 

 Scape of antenna with pecten. Terminal segment of palpus ^^'ith a 

 subbasal dark fuscous ring, median segment with a similar subapical 

 ring. Forewing ^^'itb vein 7 just below apex. 



